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Text problem exporting to a dwg viewer

Text problem exporting to a dwg viewer

Text problem exporting to a dwg viewer

(OP)
Sorry, I would normally do a search, but the function is under maintainence.  I know I have seen threads on this before.  What is the best font to use in SolidWorks, when I need to export a drawing to a dwg viewer?  Some text on our drawings are getting spread out, and ends up covering some other information.  

Thanks

RE: Text problem exporting to a dwg viewer

I use Arial and it works very well for all of our formats.

RE: Text problem exporting to a dwg viewer

(OP)
Thanks guys

Scott, the DWG file is being sent to our suppliers, and they look at them thru a DWG viewer.  What is actually happening is that the proprietary statement text gets spread out and covers the material section of the titleblock.  It seems to be fine when I pull it up in other CAD systems, just not in the DWG viewer.  I also assume that the DWG viewer supports autocad fonts, although I am not able to test this in autocad personally.  We do not have autocad.  Maybe I am looking at another problem?  I will try your suggestions on the text.

Thanks

RE: Text problem exporting to a dwg viewer

"What is actually happening is that the proprietary statement text gets spread out and covers the material section of the titleblock." From DHALE1

I have just experienced the same thing while creating our borders. Everything was 'spreading out'. Our final output is electronic dxf files so I needed to find a fix. What a pain!

My hunch is that my original borders where created in a package (CadKey?) which allows the scaling of just the text width. It seemed to be scaled at about 80%. When it goes to dxf the width scaling is removed and it 'spreads out'.

My first fix was to copy and paste back in from the SW DWGEditor. I then relized that I can just create new text (copy and pasting the text value) in SW and the problem goes away.

Hope this helps.

RE: Text problem exporting to a dwg viewer

(OP)
Renegade

We did convert from Cadkey.  At the time I had posted, We had imported text from Cadkey for the proprietary statement.  Since then, I have converted the text to SolidWorks Text.  I was thinking that it might fix it, but I was not for sure.  Thank you for posting, It's nice to know that it is fixed, and the reasoning behind it.

Great post

Thanks  

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